vSphere 5 Now Live

August 24, 2011

(The following is taken from a newsletter I produce for my clients that I’m pre-posting here on the blog.) Back on July 12th, VMware unveiled the Cloud Infrastructure Suite which included vSphere 5. As of a few minutes ago, vSphere 5.0 is available for download on the VMware website!  (ESX 5.0 is build 469512 and vCenter Server 5.0 is build 456005) [...]

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vSphere 5 License Advisor Available

August 11, 2011

Following on the vSphere 5 License adjustment, VMware recently released the vSphere 5 License Advisor.  This is a tool that you can use to run against your vSphere 4.1, vSphere 4.0, or Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 deployments to understand how the vSphere 5 vRAM licensing entitlement will affect your installation. Note: I’ve heard some comments that [...]

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VMware Listened: vSphere 5 Licensing Changes

August 3, 2011

So VMware announced a change in licensing with vSphere 5…the customers reacted…and VMware listened and adjusted the licensing in about 3 weeks.  Quite a rarity in the enterprise software industry… When I talked to my clients about the licensing changes that were coming with vSphere 5, the reaction wasn’t really one of shock to a [...]

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VMware Cloud Foundry & The Enterprise Programmer

May 4, 2011

Three weeks ago VMware announced and launched Cloud Foundry (right before I went on vacation, one of the reasons for the delay in this post). An open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to support multiple programming models and multiple clouds for eventual deployment to. In the past three short week Cloud Foundary has [...]

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Running Legacy Workloads on vSphere

March 16, 2011

Here is an interesting video from Andy where he took the time to show the history of upgrading through each version of MS Windows by actually doing that inside a VMware VM!   Sure this video is interesting from the “wow, I remember that  OS…how far we’ve come” aspect. But I find it more interesting from the “a current [...]

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Universe Dots on Parenting

January 10, 2011

This past weekend, I was feeding Matthew when he fell asleep in my arms. As I’ve gotten into the habbit of doing during these moments, I catch up on my blog reading thanks to the iPad and Matthew both fitting in my lap at the same time (for now).  In the course of my blog [...]

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